“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

Chromatic v The United Kingdom: On Complicity, Colour, and the Failure to Protect


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The Rhetoric of Refusal

Or, A Formal Address to Those Who Mistake Silence for Safety

Filed: 30 October 2024
Reference Code: SWK-RACE-ABUSE-2024-10
PDF Filename: 2024-10-30_SWANK_Letter_MetWestminster_RacialAggressionAndComplicity.pdf
One-Line Summary: A mother addresses the combined failure of police and social workers to protect her children from racism — and instead watching it happen.

I. What Happened

On 30 October 2024, Polly Chromatic (then under her legal name) issued an email to both the Metropolitan Police and Westminster Children’s Services. It was not a request. It was a reckoning.

The subject line:
“Aiding and abetting racist acts of aggression towards me and my kids.”

In one page, she crystallised a decade of state-enabled violence — not just through action, but through silence. Not just through what was done, but through what was permitted.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

This message directly alleges:

  • Complicity by police and child protection officers in allowing racial harassment

  • Misuse of safeguarding powers to blame the victim, not protect them

  • Structural racism reframed as “child concern”

  • Psychological displacement imposed on a U.S. citizen family via bureaucratic whitewashing

  • Institutional gaslighting so severe it rebrands protection as punishment

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because when a mother asks, “Are you all brain damaged?”, it’s not an insult — it’s a metaphor for a system with no moral oxygen left.

Because when a parent says, “You made us hate your schools,” it is not a tantrum — it is data.

Because the subject of this email should have ended ten careers. Instead, it entered the record via SWANK.

This wasn’t an emotional outburst. It was a literary punch to the gut of performative safeguarding.

IV. Violations

  • Race Relations Act / Equality Act 2010 – Discriminatory inaction and abuse allowance

  • Article 3 & Article 14 ECHR – Failure to protect from degrading treatment with racial factors

  • Safeguarding Failure – Total neglect of emotional safety

  • Institutional Retaliation – Targeting the whistleblower, not the abuser

  • Trauma Amplification – Forcing children to “assimilate” into harm

V. SWANK’s Position

This letter must be preserved not despite its tone, but because of it. It is the natural linguistic result of breathing racism for ten years and being told to exhale calmly.

The system had its chance to speak first — it did so with removal, accusation, and procedural cruelty. This email is a reply. And it does not apologise.

We consider this an evidentiary milestone in the decolonisation of British safeguarding theatre.

Let it be known:
When they asked if she understood, she asked if they were conscious.

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